LET US CONSULT ENCYCLOPAEDIAS FOR A FULL
COMPREHENSION OF WHAT FREEDOM CONNOTES AND DENOTES IN OUR DISSERTATION ON
LIBERATION OF AFRICANS FROM MENTAL SLAVERY
Dr Jideofo Kenechukwu Danmbaezue,
Professor of Clinical Psychometrics
http://www.thebestbrainpossible.com/free-yourself-from-mental-slavery/
As a doctor and
a theosphist I am available to all shades of human beings at my websites,
e-mails and clinic located at C82, Federal Housing Estates, Trans-Ekulu, Enugu
or during the summers; at Ezeawara town in Ihiala LGA of Anambra State if I am
not on holidays to Houston-Texas, USA. ENGLISH Greetings to Rational Beings of
this computer age! By having a website you are now recognised and respected as
a Citizen of the Global Village. You are no more a racist, a chauvinist nor a
parochial religionist. You are a special son or daughter of the Almighty
Creator who has given us the macrocosms and microcosms to share. Let us live in
peace like we ought to, equal heirs to the benefits we derive from being HOMO
SAPIENS! Please visit http//www.happyfamilynetwork.hpage.com for
the scientific creed and international educational guidelines and youth rearing
practices that can make us ONE HUMAN FAMILY living in ONE CREATED UNIVERSE as
children of ONE ALMIGHTY CREATOR. FRENCH Salutations à des êtres rationnels de cette
ère de l'informatique! En ayant un site web vous sont désormais reconnus et
respectés en tant que citoyen du village global. Vous n'êtes pas plus
raciste,chauvine, ni une un religieux paroissial. Vous êtes un fils ou une
fillespéciale du Créateur Tout-Puissant qui nous a donné le macrocosme et le
microcosme de partager. Laissez-nous vivre en paix comme nous devrions,
héritiers égal aux avantages que nous tirons de se HOMO SAPIENS! S'il vous
plaît visitez http / /www.happyfamilynetwork.hpage.com pour la croyance scientifique et
directives internationales et les pratiques éducatives des jeunesd'élevage qui
peuvent nous faire une famille vivant humain dans ununivers créé que les
enfants d'un Créateur Tout-Puissant. GERMAN
Grüße an Rational Wesen dieser Computer-Zeitalter! Durch eineWebsite, die Sie
jetzt anerkannt und respektiert als Citizen of theGlobal Village. Sie sind
nicht mehr ein Rassist, ein Chauvinist noch eine engstirnige Glaubensgenossen.
Sie sind eine spezielle Sohn oder die Tochter des allmächtigen Schöpfers, der
uns gegeben hat,der Makrokosmos und Mikrokosmos zu teilen. Lasst uns in Friedenleben
wie wir sollten, gleich Erben, um die Vorteile wir aus Homosapiens! Bitte
besuchen Sie http / /www.happyfamilynetwork.hpage.com für
die wissenschaftlicheCredo und internationalen Bildungs-Richtlinien und
JugendErziehungsmethoden, die uns eine menschliche Familie lebt in
ONEgeschaffene Universum als Kinder eines allmächtigen Schöpferskann. SPANISH Saludos a los seres racionales de esta
era de la informática! Al tener un sitio web que está ahora reconocida y
respetada como un ciudadano de la Aldea Global. Tú no eres más racista,
chovinista, niun religioso parroquial. Usted es un hijo o una hija especial del
Creador Todopoderoso, que nos ha dado el macrocosmos y elmicrocosmos de compartir.
Vivamos en paz, como debemos,herederos igual a los beneficios que se derivan de
ser homo sapiens! Por favor, visite http / /www.happyfamilynetwork.hpage.com para el credo científico ydirectrices
internacionales y las prácticas educativas de jóvenes de crianza que nos puede
hacer vivir UNA FAMILIA HUMANA en un universo creado como hijos del Creador
Todopoderoso.
Religion, which
is superstition sanctioned by the state, is actually an addiction to man-made
doctrines and dogmas invented, patented and copyrighted by a few
demagogues.
• It enslaves the mind more than psychoactive drugs,
• Benumbs human creativity and resourcefulness thereby
• Restricting the development of the human potential and capital.
It is the main cause of poverty of the mind and underdevelopment of third world countries as its side-effects are indolence, redundancy, laziness and dependence of finished products and services. In the final analysis, it is the predisposing factor to lack of initiative, debilitating ignorance, fetish belief-systems, abject poverty and perennial ill-health.
Perhaps its only advantage is that it makes the polity docile and amenable to the whims and caprices of their oppressive leaders. Often, it hoodwinks its adherents into believing that ‘The God’ or ‘the gods’ they worship speak to them through the voices of their egocentric clerics who therefore can conveniently exploit them to satisfy their demonic desires of sensual pleasure and inordinate ambitions of amassing wealth. Their wanton indulgence in gluttony, wine and women is seen in every action and definitely this is the foolproof evidence of their demonic genealogy.
To rescue humanity from the demonic stranglehold of idolatry that now predominates worldwide, you are invited to reason along with us and see that we provide an everlasting cure for sensual lust for food, wine, sex, wealth and power that are the trademarks of society heading for damnation! Are you going to sit on the fence and wait for another failed experiment in Messiahship that was riddled with myopic and ethnocentric bias? Who knows the Creator well enough to declare that he has ‘a chosen people’? Where is the evidence that Moses actually led the so-called people out of any oppressive regime? The history books and modern encyclopaedia did not record the enslavement of the Jewish race except as ‘they were believed as revealed truths’.
• It enslaves the mind more than psychoactive drugs,
• Benumbs human creativity and resourcefulness thereby
• Restricting the development of the human potential and capital.
It is the main cause of poverty of the mind and underdevelopment of third world countries as its side-effects are indolence, redundancy, laziness and dependence of finished products and services. In the final analysis, it is the predisposing factor to lack of initiative, debilitating ignorance, fetish belief-systems, abject poverty and perennial ill-health.
Perhaps its only advantage is that it makes the polity docile and amenable to the whims and caprices of their oppressive leaders. Often, it hoodwinks its adherents into believing that ‘The God’ or ‘the gods’ they worship speak to them through the voices of their egocentric clerics who therefore can conveniently exploit them to satisfy their demonic desires of sensual pleasure and inordinate ambitions of amassing wealth. Their wanton indulgence in gluttony, wine and women is seen in every action and definitely this is the foolproof evidence of their demonic genealogy.
To rescue humanity from the demonic stranglehold of idolatry that now predominates worldwide, you are invited to reason along with us and see that we provide an everlasting cure for sensual lust for food, wine, sex, wealth and power that are the trademarks of society heading for damnation! Are you going to sit on the fence and wait for another failed experiment in Messiahship that was riddled with myopic and ethnocentric bias? Who knows the Creator well enough to declare that he has ‘a chosen people’? Where is the evidence that Moses actually led the so-called people out of any oppressive regime? The history books and modern encyclopaedia did not record the enslavement of the Jewish race except as ‘they were believed as revealed truths’.
The Creator has hidden so much from our intellectual faculties that to date we are still unravelling those He is allowing humanity to glimpse at through divine dreams, intuitions, inspirations and revelations to devout souls! Do you want to have supernatural knowledge mediated by spiritual faculties of seeing, feeling, sensing and caring for others? Look inwards, for the kingdom of God is inside you, not outside as many preachers tell you. No one ever got eternal bliss by keeping the commandments of men. It is given to altruistic seekers of that Divine Guidance in the affairs of mankind, which many yearn for but do not know where, when and how to find it. Search for it in this book!
The creator gave humans some of his powers and knowledge for recreating the material universe for the mutual benefits of all his created beings but today many use his gifts to perpetrate evil. Either by design or demonic manipulation, the obverse is the case; the first datum that every living thing recognises is that someone put it here and caters for its welfare. Dogs respect and fight in defence of their owners. Every pet realises that it is loved and taken care of by someone who has value for its existence. It is human who pride themselves of being rational beings that do not recognise, respect or realise that all of us have a single owner. It is absurd! Some believe there is an Almighty Creator who provides for each creature on daily basis, some assert that he has turned his back on us due to our congenital wickedness and cruel ways, while others simply deny his existence!
This is my summation of the problem; “Religion was/is a superstitious search by humanity for its origin, existence, meaning and relevance before the scientific era. The search was led by acclaimed sages among the elders of a community who defined its theories and practices. It is later ratified and recommended for legislation and implementation by state apparatus by convincing stratagem or coercion by politico-religious leaders. Thereafter, it is fine tuned and administered by ordained priests and priestesses who hand it down along ancestral lineages from one generation of lukewarm adherents, fanatics and mystics to another. Gradually, strong personalities emerge claiming divine appointment and so pull strong followers who idolise them as role models with supernatural powers. This obsession confirms them as beacons of adulation and finally leads to full scale idolatry.
INTRODUCTION TO
INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT
The Computer-Age Spiritual Fellowship for Citizens of Our Global Village
Many people are mere conformists. They are those personalities that are satisfied with ‘going through the motions’; doing what everyone else is doing to make a living and waiting for the final ‘call to glory’ as they brand death! Many of us are born and live an inconsequential life; bland, uneventful and without anything particular to be remembered for after our exit from this mundane world, a temporal habitation for the soul. There are some others, whose lives and contributions to the society made a difference! They changed the ‘status quo’ by either extending the frontiers of knowledge or developing their immediate communities. They improved the understanding of human nature and taught others the values of humanitarianism. These heroes and heroines touched the lives of many both inter-racially and internationally.
They added colour to the doldrums of routine existence on planet earth!
A few had tall dreams and went ahead to transform them into reality despite all odds. This group devised methods of changing the deplorable situations and the deprived circumstances of the lifestyle they met on becoming adults. Some adolescents dream of the courage to better their social status, but often take off on the wrong foot of seeking for titles, money, fame and crowning it all with indulging in romantic relationships.
Others dared to pursue the unknown, to break new grounds and blaze trails for followers to tread on. Their zeal, inquisitiveness, passion, persistence, desire, motivations and prayers were fully rewarded if they paid the prize for success; optimism, dedication and the refusal to quit. Their philosophy of life was ‘When the task gets tough, the tough get it going!’, ‘Never say, never again!’ or ‘All that it takes to make the impossible possible is the power to remove the ‘im’ in front of the possible!’
They eventually became geniuses, inventors, explorers, leaders or discoverers! They evolved into the innovators and pioneers who helped to enlarge the frontiers of human civilisations and removed the age-old boundaries of the unknown. Joining this select group of animators or league of achievers is usually not by accident or by mere wishful thinking. Beyond desire and hard work is a divine factor that must be recognised, respected and appropriated in unveiling the unknown that the Divine Architect had hidden there for ages waiting for a brave soul to convert it from obscure dormancy to utilitarian vibrancy. This author, Dr Kenez wants to know where you belong in this universal continuum. Or, are you waiting for ‘manna from heaven’?
The Computer-Age Spiritual Fellowship for Citizens of Our Global Village
Many people are mere conformists. They are those personalities that are satisfied with ‘going through the motions’; doing what everyone else is doing to make a living and waiting for the final ‘call to glory’ as they brand death! Many of us are born and live an inconsequential life; bland, uneventful and without anything particular to be remembered for after our exit from this mundane world, a temporal habitation for the soul. There are some others, whose lives and contributions to the society made a difference! They changed the ‘status quo’ by either extending the frontiers of knowledge or developing their immediate communities. They improved the understanding of human nature and taught others the values of humanitarianism. These heroes and heroines touched the lives of many both inter-racially and internationally.
They added colour to the doldrums of routine existence on planet earth!
A few had tall dreams and went ahead to transform them into reality despite all odds. This group devised methods of changing the deplorable situations and the deprived circumstances of the lifestyle they met on becoming adults. Some adolescents dream of the courage to better their social status, but often take off on the wrong foot of seeking for titles, money, fame and crowning it all with indulging in romantic relationships.
Others dared to pursue the unknown, to break new grounds and blaze trails for followers to tread on. Their zeal, inquisitiveness, passion, persistence, desire, motivations and prayers were fully rewarded if they paid the prize for success; optimism, dedication and the refusal to quit. Their philosophy of life was ‘When the task gets tough, the tough get it going!’, ‘Never say, never again!’ or ‘All that it takes to make the impossible possible is the power to remove the ‘im’ in front of the possible!’
They eventually became geniuses, inventors, explorers, leaders or discoverers! They evolved into the innovators and pioneers who helped to enlarge the frontiers of human civilisations and removed the age-old boundaries of the unknown. Joining this select group of animators or league of achievers is usually not by accident or by mere wishful thinking. Beyond desire and hard work is a divine factor that must be recognised, respected and appropriated in unveiling the unknown that the Divine Architect had hidden there for ages waiting for a brave soul to convert it from obscure dormancy to utilitarian vibrancy. This author, Dr Kenez wants to know where you belong in this universal continuum. Or, are you waiting for ‘manna from heaven’?
AGUNABU UMUELECHI BIAFRA INSISTS THAT CITIZENS
OF OUR GLOBAL VILLAGE MUST LIBERATE OURSELVES FROM MENTAL SLAVERY
Liberty
(freedom)
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INTRODUCTION
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Liberty
(freedom), right of individuals to act as they choose. In this
sense, it is frequently called individual liberty. The term is also employed in
connection with the achievement of sovereignty by a people; when so used, it is
called national liberty. Although in these traditional senses liberty may be
specifically civil or political, the modern concept further connotes a
generalized body of rights, such as the right to economic opportunity and
education.
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RIGHTS AND RESTRAINTS
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Because completely unrestricted
freedom of action would make peaceful human existence impossible, some
restraints on freedom of action are necessary and inevitable. Virtually all
codes of action recognize that basic limitation. Liberty is defined in such
codes as the right of individuals to act without restraint as long as their
actions do not interfere with the equivalent rights of others; acts that do
violate the rights of others are rejected as license.
The nature and extent
of the restraints to be imposed and the selection of the means of enforcing
them have been important problems for philosophers and lawmakers throughout
history. Almost all the solutions finally arrived at have recognized the
fundamental need for a government, meaning an individual or group of
individuals empowered to impose and enforce whatever restraints are deemed
necessary. In modern times, great emphasis has also been placed on the need for
laws to define the nature and extent of these restraints. The philosophy of
anarchism is an exception; it objects to all governments as evil in themselves
and substitutes an idealized society in which social restraint is achieved
through individual observance of high ethical principles.
A perfect balance between
the right of an individual to act without undue interference and the need of
the community to restrain freedom of action has often been projected in theory
but has never been achieved. The restraints imposed throughout most of history
have been oppressive. History has been described as society's progress from a
state of anarchy, through periods of despotism during which liberty was
nonexistent or restricted to one privileged group, to a state of liberty for
every individual under democratic governments; history has thus been shaped by
the natural desire of all people to be free.
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DISSEMINATION OF LIBERTIES
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In antiquity, liberty
meant national freedom; slavery was considered a necessary institution of
society. Liberty in medieval times related primarily to social groups seeking
to wrest certain privileges from the sovereigns against whom they contended for
power. This kind of struggle resulted in the Magna Carta, imposed in the 13th
century on John, king of England, by a group of barons; the document has great
significance in the progress of human liberty. As the Middle Ages came to an
end, the Renaissance raised problems of intellectual freedom, challenging the
established dogma of the Catholic church; later still the Reformation further promoted
ideas of religious freedom and freedom of conscience (see Religious
Liberty).
Three great revolutions
helped to define individual liberty and ensure its preservation. In
17th-century England, the Glorious Revolution was the culmination of several hundred
years of gradual imposition of judicial and legislative restraints upon the
monarchy. The English Bill of Rights, adopted by the Parliament in 1689,
established representative government in England.
The American Revolution
of 1776 joined the problems of achieving individual liberty with those of
creating a new state. The Declaration of Independence issued by the American
revolutionists reflected centuries of struggle for freedom in England. The
second great charter of liberty to issue from the American Revolution was the
U.S. Constitution. In its first ten amendments, known as the Bill of Rights,
the Constitution established guarantees of civil rights.
The French Revolution
of 1789 destroyed the feudal system in France and established representative government.
In the Enlightenment, the body of thought that molded the thinking of the
leaders of the French Revolution, liberty was defined as a natural right of
man, a right to act without interference from any source but nevertheless
requiring voluntary submission to necessary limitations in order that the
benefits of organized social existence might be enjoyed. Challenging the theory
of the divine right of kings to rule, this new theory held that the source of
all governmental power was the people, and that tyranny began when the natural
rights of men were violated. From the French Revolution came the Declaration of
the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, which served as a model for most of the
declarations of liberty adopted by European states in the 19th century.
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MODERN PROBLEMS
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Since these revolutions,
the principal problem with respect to national liberty has arisen in connection
with the struggles of small states and colonial areas to be free from foreign
political or economic control and to achieve full sovereignty. Closely related
to this problem has been that arising from the efforts of national or racial
minorities, such as the French residents of Québec, Canada, to win political
and cultural autonomy within a country.
With respect to individual
liberty in the modern era, the problem has been one of preserving and extending
civil rights, such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press (see Civil
Rights and Civil Liberties; Press, Freedom of the; Speech, Freedom of). As
nations grew in size and social complexity, governments claimed greater powers
to restrain individuals and groups, extending these powers over wider spheres.
Those who criticize this development believe that it has gone so far as to
threaten the very existence of individual liberty. Others believe that only if
government is granted such powers can the complex problems of an increasingly
automated, mobile, and populous world be solved. Most important, governments
must be more concerned with individuals and groups that are actively demanding
full exercise of the rights that constitute liberty in the 20th century.
A challenge to traditional
concepts of liberty was offered by the Russian Revolution of 1917. The Soviet
state that resulted held, in accordance with Marxist theory on which it was
based, that all previous codes of liberty were ideologies of the ruling classes
or of classes aspiring to power, and did not benefit the vast majority of the
population. True liberty was possible only by the elimination of class
exploitation. The success of the revolution raised hopes for a new era of human
freedom. But the subsequent evolution of a terrorist dictatorship under Joseph
Stalin led many people to assume that socialism, which is based on collective
ownership of the means of production, leads inevitably to dictatorship.
Other menaces to liberty
arose in the first half of the 20th century in the form of the totalitarian
governments of Italy, Germany, and Spain. In these countries civil liberties
were destroyed, the rights of the individual were completely subordinated to
the requirements of the government, and those who did not agree with these
policies were terrorized into submission. Freedom was restored in Italy and to
West Germany (now part of the united Federal Republic of Germany) at the end of
World War II, and to Spain in 1975, after the death of the Spanish dictator
Francisco Franco.
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Democracy
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INTRODUCTION
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South African Elections, 1994
In May of 1994, Nelson Mandela
became the president of South Africa after the first democratic elections in
the nation’s history. The voting, held between April 26 and April 29, mobilized
the country’s population and ended centuries of political oppression. This
video highlights then-president de Klerk’s recognition of Mandela as the victor
and captures Mandela’s joyous victory dance.
Worldwide Television News
Democracy (Greek demos,”the people”;
kratein, “to rule”), political system in which the people of a country
rule through any form of government they choose to establish. In modern
democracies, supreme authority is exercised for the most part by
representatives elected by popular suffrage. The representatives may be
supplanted by the electorate according to the legal procedures of recall and
referendum, and they are, at least in principle, responsible to the electorate.
In many democracies, such as the United States, both the executive head of
government and the legislature are elected. In typical constitutional
monarchies such as the United Kingdom and Norway, only the legislators are
elected, and from their ranks a cabinet and a prime minister are chosen.
Political Demonstration in
Manila
Residents of Manila fill the
streets during the funeral procession of leftist Philippine labor leader
Rolando Olalia in 1986. Many Filipinos suspected that Olalia was assassinated
by right-wing elements of the military. The freedom to hold public
demonstrations is often considered a key element of democracy.
Pominiqueda/Liaison Agency
Although often used interchangeably,
the terms democracy and republic are not synonymous. Both systems
delegate the power to govern to their elected representatives. In a republic,
however, these officials are expected to act on their own best judgment of the
needs and interests of the country. The officials in a democracy more generally
and directly reflect the known or ascertained views of their constituents,
sometimes subordinating their own judgment.
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DEMOCRACY IN ANCIENT GREECE
AND ROME
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Rule by the people played
an important part in the democracies of the pre-Christian era. The democracies
of the city-states of classical Greece and of Rome during the early years of
the Republic were unlike the democracies of today. They were direct democracies,
in which all citizens could speak and vote in assemblies that resembled New
England town meetings. Representative government was unknown and unnecessary
because of the small size of the city-states (almost never more than 10,000
citizens). Ancient democracy did not presuppose equality of all individuals;
the majority of the populace, notably slaves and women, had no political
rights. Athens, the greatest of the city democracies, limited the franchise to
native-born citizens. Roman democracy resembled that of the Greeks, although
Rome sometimes granted citizenship to men of non-Roman descent. The Roman Stoic
philosophy, which defined the human race as part of a divine principle, and the
Jewish and Christian religions, which emphasized the rights of the underprivileged
and the equality of all before God, contributed to the development of modern
democratic theory.
The Roman Republic ended
in the despotism of the empire. The free cities of Italy, Germany, and Flanders
carried on the democratic tradition and applied some principles of democracy
during the Middle Ages. Slaves ceased to constitute a major portion of national
populations. As feudalism ended, a rich commercial middle class arose,
possessing the money and leisure necessary to participate in governmental affairs.
One result was the rebirth of a spirit of freedom based on ancient Greek and
Roman principles. Concepts of equal political and social rights were further
defined during the Renaissance, when the development of humanism was fostered,
and later during the Reformation, in the struggle for religious freedom.
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WESTERN EUROPE AND THE U.S.
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Alexis de Tocqueville
French historian, political theorist,
and author Alexis de Tocqueville became famous for his compelling analysis of
American democracy. While traveling through the United States in the early
1830s, Tocqueville recorded observations of American society, which he compiled
in the book Democracy in America (1835-1840). A liberal, Tocqueville believed
in the concept of democracy, but worried that the will of the masses might
stifle individual freedoms.
Erich Lessing/Art Resource, NY
Beginning with the first
popular rebellion against monarchy in England (1642), which was brought to a
climax by the execution of King Charles I, political and revolutionary action
against autocratic European governments resulted in the establishment of
democratic governments. Such action was inspired and guided largely by
political philosophers, notably the French philosophers Montesquieu and Jean
Jacques Rousseau, and the American statesmen Thomas Jefferson and James
Madison. Before the end of the 19th century, every important Western European
monarchy had adopted a constitution limiting the power of the Crown and giving
a considerable share of political power to the people. In many of these
countries, a representative legislature modeled on the British Parliament was
instituted. British politics was then possibly the greatest single influence on
the organization of world democracies, although the French Revolution also
exerted a powerful influence. Later, the success of democratic institutions in
the United States served as a model for many peoples.
The major features of
modern democracy include individual freedom, which entitles citizens to the
liberty and responsibility of shaping their own careers and conducting their
own affairs; equality before the law; and universal suffrage and education.
Such features have been proclaimed in great historic documents, for example,
the U.S. Declaration of Independence, which asserted the right to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; the French Declaration of the Rights of
Man and of the Citizen, which affirmed the principles of civil liberty and of
equality before the law; and the Atlantic Charter, which formulated the four
basic freedoms.
By the middle of the 20th
century, every independent country in the world, with only a few exceptions,
had a government that, in form if not in practice, embodied some of the
principles of democracy. Although the ideals of democracy have been widely
professed, the practice and fulfillment have been different in many countries.
Reviewed By:
Richard M. Pious
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